South Africa: Plans for World Cup Prostitution Condemned

Plans by Durban to temporary legalize prostitution and "adult entertainment venues" is meeting with predictably vocal opposition. While this would be an easy way to generate tax-based revenue from an industry that will service (as it were) visiting sports fans anyway, I would...

Minister forced to sell £30,000 of shares over 'conflict of interest'

"A GOVERNMENT minister announced last night that he was to sell his major shareholding in an energy company after facing allegations of a conflict of interest. Stewart Stevenson, the minister responsible for drawing up Scotland's targets on renewable energy, owns £30,000 of...

How many grains make a heap?

"The controversy between realists, who think that the notion of truth as correspondence to reality can be saved, and pragmatists, who regard it as hopeless, seems to me much more fruitful than the question of whether ‘Water is H2O’ is a necessary truth. The debate...

Barbour wisely dismisses Brown's Katrina conspiracy

"Michael Brown, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is shooting off his mouth again. Last week in New York City, he claimed that Mississippi and Louisiana were treated differently after Hurricane Katrina because of their politics. Unfortunately,...

Cheney: Talk of blunders in Iraq is 'hogwash'

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday dismissed as "hogwash" the suggestion that blunders may have hurt the administration's credibility on Iraq and led members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to question President Bush's plan to send more troops...

Kingston, ON: Birthplace of the Pita… Pit

"Yes indeed, Kingston is the home of the very first Pita Pit. As such, and in the spirit of entrepreneurship, I feel it is appropriate to offer a suggestion to the Pita Pit franchise. Whenever I order a delicious chicken caesar pita, I cannot help but feel that things could...